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All Presidents Start Out To Run A Crusade But After A Couple Of Years They Find They Are Running Something Less Heroic And Much More Intractable: Namely The Presidency. The People Are Well Cured By Then Of Election Fever, During Which They Think They Are Choosing Moses. In The Third Year, They Look On The Man As A Sinner And A Bumble And Begin To Poke Around For Rumors Of Another Messiah.

I Talk To My Typewriter And That Is What I've Been Working On For 40 Years-how To Write For Talking.

Hollywood Grew To Be The Most Flourishing Factory Of Popular Mythology Since The Greeks.

It Has Been An Unchallengeable American Doctrine That Cranberry Sauce, A Pink Goo With Overtones Of Sugared Tomatoes, Is A Delectable Necessity Of The Thanksgiving Board And That Turkey Is Uneatable Without It.

There Is Even - As With No Other Game - A Fascinating Detective Literature, A Wry Commentary On The Human Comedy, Implicit In The Book Of Rules.